{"id":808,"date":"2024-06-02T11:49:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T15:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=808"},"modified":"2024-06-02T11:49:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T15:49:40","slug":"arizona-february-16-24-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2024\/06\/02\/arizona-february-16-24-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona, February 16-24, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

February 16, 2024<\/strong>
\n6:11 p.m.:<\/p>\n

\"Sunset,<\/p>\n

6:31 p.m.:
\n\"Sunset,<\/p>\n

February 17, 2024<\/strong>
\n7:15 a.m.:<\/p>\n

\"Sunrise,<\/p>\n

Mormon Trail<\/a> in South Mountain Park & Preserve:<\/p>\n

\"Mormon<\/p>\n

The Hidden Valley Natural Tunnel:<\/p>\n

\"Hidden<\/p>\n

Fat Man’s Pass (there are pictures online of people squeezing through this — we didn’t try!):<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

February 18, 2024<\/strong>
\n7:24 a.m.:<\/p>\n

\"Sunrise,<\/p>\n

Cotton Lane Citrus U-Pick, Surprise<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Orchard<\/p>\n

\"Cotton<\/p>\n

\"Cotton<\/p>\n

6:36 p.m.:
\n\"Sunset,<\/p>\n

February 19, 2024<\/strong>
\n7:14 a.m.:<\/p>\n

\"Sunrise,<\/p>\n

February 20, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tombstone<\/a> was the first stop on our side trip through Cochise County, in the southeastern corner of the state:<\/p>\n

\"East<\/p>\n

“Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” reenactment at the O.K. Corral<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Gunfight<\/p>\n

Big Nose Kate’s Saloon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Big<\/p>\n

\"Big<\/p>\n

February 21, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kartchner Caverns State Park<\/a> just south of Benson (where photography is prohibited to protect the bat population):<\/p>\n

\"Kartchner<\/p>\n

\"Kartchner<\/p>\n

Mi Casa Restaurant<\/a> in Benson:<\/p>\n

\"Mi<\/p>\n

There are seeming countless billboards for The Thing?<\/a> all along Interstate 10:<\/p>\n

\"Interstate<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

February 22, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

Copper Queen Mine Tour<\/a> in Bisbee:<\/p>\n

\"Copper<\/p>\n

\"Copper<\/p>\n

Here is a toilet:<\/p>\n

\"Copper<\/p>\n

Other methods of mining at nearby Lavender Pit<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Lavender<\/p>\n

The story behind the evocative name is less exciting:<\/p>\n

\"Lavender<\/p>\n

Quaint Bisbee<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Main<\/p>\n

This was shortly after the Valentine’s Day fire on Main Street:<\/p>\n

\"Main<\/p>\n

Arizona State Route 80 was once part of US Route 80<\/a>, the trans-continental highway connecting Savannah, GA and San Diego, CA. Interstates 10, 8 and 20 replaced this highway, which the Wikipedia article notes rivaled US 66 in terms of “American highway folklore.” This was Arizona State Route 80 about ten miles north of Bisbee on the way back toward Tucson: <\/p>\n

\"Arizona<\/p>\n

Sonoran hot dogs at El Güero Canelo<\/a> in Tucson on the way back to Phoenix:<\/p>\n

\"Cucho<\/p>\n

February 23, 2024<\/strong>
\n6:17 p.m.:<\/p>\n

\"Sunset,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February 16, 2024 6:11 p.m.: 6:31 p.m.: February 17, 2024 7:15 a.m.: Mormon Trail in South Mountain Park & Preserve: The Hidden Valley Natural Tunnel: Fat Man’s Pass (there are pictures online of people squeezing through this — we didn’t try!): February 18, 2024 7:24 a.m.: Cotton Lane Citrus U-Pick, Surprise: 6:36 p.m.: February 19, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out_of_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}